Quite a remarkable sight. A white woman, a brown man, both United States Senators, one of which will likely be President of the United States next year.
The world I was born into, this could never have happened. Truly it is written, "the times they are a-changin'---" Bob Dylan
I wrote the following on May 27th when oil closed at just below $130 per bbl.
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"I have a theory, that's not pleasant to contemplate. I think maybe the folks that have control of the crude oil supply, (middle east folks) know it makes no sense to challenge us militarily, but by slowly driving up the cost of energy, they can eventually wreck our economy.
'Why would they do this?', you may ask. THINK IRAQ, among other things."
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Today oil futures are trading at $140 and change.
While we are wrecking Iraq, we are also wrecking ourselves.
"When will they ever learn?"
A quote from THE NEW YORKER, 6/30/08. Excerpt from Obama's 2002 speech about Iraq.
"I know that even a sucessful war against Iraq will require a U. S. occupation of undermined length, with undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than the best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of Al Qaeda. I'm not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars."
The wisdom shown in this speech can only presage the wisdom that will be brought to bear if Obama is elected President of the United States.
The time has come to end the major export of the United States.
WAR!
My brother lives in Mexico. He has had Mexicans say to him:
"You people really like war don't you?"
A sad example of what people in the rest of the world think of us. I never thought I would live to see such a disgraceful state of affairs. This from the country that after WW2 created the Marshall Plan and the Berlin Airlift to help the citizens of Germany, our defeated enemies.
Why have we lost our moral compass? Can we get it back?
Republican Harold Edward Stassen (April 13, 1907 – March 4, 2001) was the 25th Governor of Minnesota from 1939 to 1943 and a later perennial candidate for other offices, most notably and frequently President of the United States.(from Wikipedia) He ran in 1948, 1952, 1964, 1968, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, and 1992.
It became somewhat of a joke, but he was always considered a nice guy among a wide range of political affiliations.
Now we have Ralph Nader. A joke and a jerk. It it wasen't for Nader, maybe there would have been no Dubya, and maybe no war, and maybe tens of thousands of the dead would still be walking on the Earth.
To paraphrase Shakespeare:
"Will no one rid us of this miserable bastard?"
Is there a recession or depression coming?
Now and then I hear folks comparing Herbert Hoover and George W.Bush. Obviously, neither had or has a clue. At least Hoover didn't mire us in a stupid war with tens of thousands dead and no end in sight.
History will take that into account.
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If there is another terrorist attack soon on the USA, it will be on the Bush watch. How can it possibly help the Republican cause?
These people are not very smart. Want them to run the country?
"Good grief Charlie Black"
